Thankfully Dan was feeling loads better this morning and ate some toast and milk with his malaria tablets. They need to be taken on a full stomach, and are best taken with something fatty, hence the milk. We had spoken to Kingsley and Karin about staying one more night at their house, because if Dan happened to get worse I wanted to be close to a hospital, and I also didn't think a 600km drive would be a good idea if he was still feeling bad. We sat in the newly painted lounge for the morning watching my new favourite program, say yes to the dress. At 12:30 when they finished we went into town to buy some more things for mum that she couldn't get in Lusaka, and some ibuprofen for Dan.
We headed straight for the Riverwalk shopping centre, and tried to find mum some poppy seeds, nuts and almond oil, but only managed to leave with the almond oil. They didn't have any of those things in Woolworths food either, but the pharmacy did have the same pink ibuprofen for Dan so it was a successful trip in my mind :) The packet of 10 pills only cost us P7, the equivalent of about 50p in the UK, which is extremely cheap for how well they work! We had lunch in Primi Piatti again, but unfortunately the pizza I chose for us to share, with bacon Brie and red onion marmalade, was dreadful. It tasted like plastic at the best of times!! I think the Brie may have been too ripe to be on the pizza, but never mind. I had two of my new favourite cocktails, the tanqueray mojitos, and we shared a chocolate brownie dessert to make up for the horrid pizza and the fact that they didn't have the haloumi starter we wanted either.
On the way home we stopped in at the Game City shopping centre to see if we could get anything else there that my parents wanted, but to no avail! What we did get was the DVD ForestGump that Dan had to convince me to buy, because I haven't ever seen it :) We headed home and I made Dan promise to help me finish my application questions and cover letter before we started watching the movie. It took a lot longer to finalise the two documents to send to everyone for spell and grammar checking than Dan would have liked, but we eventually sat down to watch Forest Gump just after 6pm. Karin and Kingsley were still not home by 7pm which confused us, until Karin's mum, who lives next door, came over to talk to us.
Turns out that Karin and Kingsley had been lead astray at Mokolodi on the way home, and asked us to prepare dinner of chicken, rice, veggies and a salad for their return in an hours time. We paused the movie and set about preparing the chicken, which turned out to taste very very much like KFC, but without all the disgusting oil. What I did was find a coating in their pantry and combine the two methods of cooking on the back, part boiling the chicken pieces for 10 minutes and then baking them with a little drizzle of olive oil over them in the oven. Dan peeled the potatoes and the carrots and I made the salad, before leaving it all to cook while we watched a bit more of our movie. Kingsley and Karin arrived home after 8, just as we were finishing up the mashing and taking the chicken out the oven.
While Dan and I were serving, the Debrowskys had a look outside at a lamp they had been bought as a wedding present, a d discussed where to put it as Karin didn't like where it was at the moment. It was right over the table next to the pizza oven, and was really very bright reflected off the white of the table. Eventually we decided that we couldn't decide where it should go, and we went in for dinner :) I was quite proud when I told them that the chicken had barely a hint of oil and yet was really juicy and tasty like KFC. After dinner we carried on watching the movie whilst they watched the news in the kitchen. They were ready to go to bed before the movie was done so Kingsley showed me how to put the alarm on and we wished them a good nights sleep!
Forest Gump was such a great movie, and I'm glad Dan convinced me to buy it! I really really enjoyed it, and if you haven't yet seen it, do yourself a favour and watch it! After the movie I checked my email and both Steve and Patricia had gotten back to me about the cover letter and questions, so Dan and I edited them both before setting the alarm and heading off to bed for the last time in Karin and Kingsley's house.
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